Chapter 363 Returning Home
If we send someone back to Qingfeng Palace, it will take another two or three months to go back and forth. How can we have time to go home? Lu Dingshan hesitated and said, "Brother Chen, Brother Qingyang and I originally planned to go back to Liangzhou after finishing our work here. I'm afraid that sending a letter to Qingfeng Palace will be..."
Chen Biwang was a little embarrassed. There were three people in total from Qingfeng Palace. If Qingyang and Lu Dingshan left, he would not be able to handle so many things.
Seeing Chen Biwang's hesitation, Qiu Mingxi next to him said directly: "What's the difficulty? Daoist Qingyang saved our lives, and we haven't had time to repay him yet. It's our duty to run errands for everyone. Now that the matter is over, Daoist Qingyang and Daoist Lu can go back. I will accompany Daoist Lu and Daoist Chen to guard the Tao family. Guo Kaifeng and Mi Ling can go to Qingfeng Hall, right?"
After receiving Qingyang's life-saving grace, they have never had the opportunity to repay him. Now that they heard what Qiu Mingxi said, Guo Kaifeng and Mi Ling hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, leave this matter to us. It is our honor to run errands for the disciples of the Immortal Sect."
Since several Yongzhou casual cultivators are willing to run errands, there is no worry about this matter. Thinking that they are still in the underground palace, they don't know if there are any dangers around, so everyone splits into two groups. Qiu Mingxi accompanies Qingyang and Lu Dingshan to continue to recuperate in the stone hall, and Chen Biwang and Lu Feng take the other two to explore the entire underground palace.
The Tao family was almost wiped out, and only a dozen blood bats escaped, so there shouldn't be any danger. The actual situation was just as everyone expected. The entire underground palace was not big, and there were no secret passages except for the places they had passed. After a search, there was nothing to gain except killing a few blood bats that escaped.
Everyone cleaned up the bodies in the underground palace, and then returned to the ground along the original path, sealed the entrance of the underground palace with stones, and everyone left the cemetery and came to the edge of the small mountain village outside.
The small mountain village outside was still in ruins. Everyone searched the village and only found a few young people. After some inquiries, they found that these young people were actually sent by the Tao family. In addition to guarding the underground palace, they were also responsible for finding fresh blood for the Tao family to water the blood lotus roots. Almost all the villagers in the nearby mountain villages died in their hands.
For such villains, there was naturally no need to stay, and they were killed directly by everyone.
After a day of rest in the village, Qingyang's injuries were healed. Although his internal injuries were still very serious, they did not affect their journey. So everyone left Phoenix Mountain and went to Tao's house.
The Tao family did not know what had happened in the past few days, nor did they know why Chen Biwang and others came back, but Tao Zhengyou and Tao Yougong did not come back, and they were not prepared at all, so they did not spend much effort to confine the entire Tao family.
Of course, Qingyang also found an opportunity to wander around the place where he lived before he left, pretending to look for the blood spirit bead, to make up for what he said, so as to avoid others' random suspicion.
After a round of interrogation, it was discovered that most people did not know what the Tao family did secretly. Almost all those who knew about this matter went to Phoenix Mountain, and Qingyang and his team caught them all. Only a few people with higher status stayed here to know some of the fur, and they were not very detailed.
Yes, this kind of thing is that the fewer people who know about it, the better. There are hundreds or thousands of people in the whole Taojiazhuang. If most people have heard about it, it is estimated that it would have been a sensation in the whole Yongzhou.
These people were not guilty of death, so Chen Biwang did not deal with them. He just restrained them from running around and decided how to deal with them when Qingfeng Hall sent people to come in the future.
Everyone searched the Tao family and found a copy of the Blood Demon Kung Fu and some other related things. These were all evidences. No one flipped through them. Chen Biwang sealed them up in front of everyone and set up restrictions on them, waiting for the master to come and deal with them.
In addition, some spiritual stones and other cultivation resources were found in the Tao family, but the number was not large. Maybe the Tao family has really declined in the past hundred years, and each person only got more than 20 spiritual stones.
After all the things were dealt with, it was already two days later. Guo Kaifeng and Mi Ling were sent to Qingfeng Hall to report the news. Chen Biwang took Lu Feng and Qiu Mingxi to guard the entire Taojiazhuang. Lu Dingshan and Qingyang left Taojiazhuang together and headed towards Liangzhou.
At this time, Qingyang's external injuries were almost completely healed, and his internal injuries had also recovered by 50% to 60%. It was no longer affected by his movements. His true qi had recovered and he was full of energy. Even if he met a cultivator of the same level, he could fight him. Moreover, he had Lu Dingshan with him, so the road was still very safe.
Yongzhou and Liangzhou were close to each other, but one was closer to the north and the other was closer to the south. The Tujiao City in Yongzhou was only a few thousand miles away from the border of Liangzhou. With the speed of Qingyang and Lu Dingshan, it would take at most ten days to reach there.
After crossing the border of Liangzhou, Qingyang and Lu Dingshan parted ways. Lu Dingshan went to his hometown of Qingyun Mansion, while Qingyang went in the direction of Xiping Mansion. They traveled all the way in the morning and at night, and in the wind and rain, it took another ten days for Qingyang to enter Xiping Mansion.
The closer Qingyang got to Xiping Prefecture, the more hesitant he became. He didn't know if Xiping Prefecture was still the same Xiping Prefecture after he had been away for so long. He didn't know if his master was still alive after ten years. He also didn't know if the Taoist Master Songhe would still recognize him after the world had changed so much and he had grown from a boy to a young man.
I was filled with emotion, but my feet were not satisfied at all. I came to Xiping City unconsciously. I walked through the dilapidated streets and alleys, and passed by pedestrians who were rich or noble, poor or humble. After so much time, Xiping City seemed to have not changed at all.
After leaving Xiping City, I passed a fork in the road and turned around and came to a small hill. The small Taoist temple on the top of the hill was getting more and more dilapidated, with broken bricks, rotten tiles, rotten beams, and broken doors. There was no vitality at all, and it seemed that it could fall down with a push.
Behind the Taoist temple, there was a crooked tree. I remember that my master often lay under the tree to drink. However, at this time, the stones under the tree were covered with dead branches and leaves. It seemed that it had not been taken care of for many years. It was empty.
Where are the people? Could it be that my master had an accident not long after I left? No, my master was such a slippery old man. He could even deceive the immortal master at the beginning. How could he easily get into trouble? Could it be that Taoist Song He is old but not old at heart, and is wandering around the world again? That's not right. He is nearly 90 years old now. It is rare for a person to live to 70, let alone 90? How can he still have so much energy?